callousness

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Definition of callousness

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noun

(uncountable, usually)The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.

“Fred was known for his callousness; local panhandlers had long since learned not to try their sob stories on him.”
“To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.”
“"The image of workers who had embraced each other as concrete crushed them — that final act of human kindness in the face of death — shattered my callousness completely."”

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noun

(uncountable, usually)The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.

“Fred was known for his callousness; local panhandlers had long since learned not to try their sob stories on him.”
“To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.”
“"The image of workers who had embraced each other as concrete crushed them — that final act of human kindness in the face of death — shattered my callousness completely."”
(uncountable, usually)The quality of having calluses.

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From callous + -ness.

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